Attack of the Social Media!

Okay, guys. Reviews and actual posts are still going to be here, but now you can find me reblogging fan art and fun news on tumblr and garnering fans on facebook. If one or both of those is your Thing, come say hi!

Updates Again!

Couple of things to share with y'all, fellow bookworms.

FIRST: I was supposed to be moved into my new apartment completely by last Friday. Things didn't quite go to plan (I mean, nothing ever does, that's life, but things went less to plan than usual), but I am now finally moved in and settled, and I've made my first trip to the local library. Life is good.

Me with Luna

SECOND: The other reason that this last week has been so hectic is Luna. Luna is a seven-week-old Siamese kitten who, after lots of uncertainty, I ended up adopting. She's a real sweetheart, but it's like having a baby in the house: never a quiet moment.

THIRD: The move from tumblr (and assorted other private blogs and personal notes) to blogspot is complete! The review archive is 100% up to date.

FOURTH: Regular blogging to recommence immediately! My review for LOSS will be up tomorrow, which will be the beginning of post-move blogging normalcy for real.

Until tomorrow, happy reading!

Waiting on Wednesday, 8/7/13

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Breaking the Spine to spotlight prerelease books we bloggers are excited about. This week I'm waiting on Smoke by Ellen Hopkins.

 Pattyn Von Stratten’s father is dead, and Pattyn is on the run. After far too many years of abuse at the hands of her father, and after the tragic loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn is desperate for peace. Only her sister Jackie knows what happened that night, but she is stuck at home with their mother, who clings to normalcy by allowing the truth to be covered up by their domineering community leaders. Her father might be finally gone, but without Pattyn, Jackie is desperately isolated. Alone and in disguise, Pattyn starts a new life, but is it even possible to rebuild a life when everything you’ve known has burned to ash and lies seem far safer than the truth? --Goodreads

I really enjoyed Burned, so I'm excited for this one to see how Pattyn's life continues even after she lost so much. (I say "enjoyed" and "excited" inasmuch as you can use those words for such a tragic story.) I love Hopkins' writing and so new books of hers pretty much always make my can't-wait list.

What are YOU waiting on this week?

(P.S. Sorry for the radio silence lately! There were some complications moving into my apartment and I ended up sort of suddenly adopting a seven-week-old kitten, so it's been a bit hectic around here lately. But we're finally settled, so reading and posting should *actually* be returning to normal now.)

Hello from College-Land!

Hello, my dear bookworms :)

It's been a weird few days. I had the kind of move-in experience that I'm pretty sure only happens in the movies (and, apparently, my life). But the apartment is now habitable, my stuff is unpacked, the internet with any luck will be connected tomorrow morning, and I have time to read again! (Plus I am literally like four blocks from the library. Aww yiss.)

Just wanted to keep you all informed. Don't worry, I'm not gone! Regular blogging to recommence soon. :)

Further Updates!

Hello, dear readers!

I am still working on importing old reviews, but everything that I'm moving over from tumblr has been moved as of today. Old reviews are backdated to July 2012; anything new is actually brand new from this point forward.

I've been blogging here for about a week now -- here's to a second week that's just as grand!

More "Getting Started" Updates

Okay. This post is more for my benefit than anything else just so I can keep track of what I'm doing, but if you are curious about the way I am doing things, then by all means read along.

I want to import all of my reviews/book-thought-rambles/whatever from various places so that I have them all in one place (this blog). BUT, it feels a bit like cheating to post old stuff as new stuff. So what I am going to do is this:

*If the review I am importing is from tumblr, I will post it as a new post in the coming days.

*If the review I am importing is older than my book-blogging efforts with tumblr, I will backdate it to "July 2012" (simply because that's the easiest way to do it, since it's currently July 2013 and I have to chance exactly one number). That way they won't fill up anybody's reading list or look like new posts but I'll still have them archived. So if a post is dated July 2012, you know it's one that I wrote well before I started this blog.

*Reviews imported from tumblr will be labeled accordingly, just to avoid confusion.

To reiterate: If a review is not clearly marked "imported from tumblr" or dated July 2012, then it IS new/current.

Introducing the Online Authors Index!

Have you ever wondered if your favorite author has a page on your favorite social media site? Well, look no further. The Online Authors Index, linked in the top bar, is an alphabetical list of authors with links to any and all of the following: tumblr, facebook, youtube, twitter, goodreads, and non-tumblr blogs. (Distinction not made between different non-tumblr blogs because I originally put this archive on my book tumblr.)

The list, however, is by no means complete. I am constantly adding to it as I learn of new authors, but if you see someone or something missing, leave a comment to let me know and I will add the missing information ASAP.

Hope this will be a helpful resource for all of you!

Review Repository

Hello to all none of you who are reading this! (If, by some chance, you ARE reading this, ohmygosh HI! I haven't started actually putting the word out about this blog yet because I'm still setting it up, so it's super cool that you found me. Hi.)

I'm going to make some posts with reviews/thoughts I wrote up in the past (including ones from tumblr, where book blogging just isn't the same) just so I can have them all in one place, so for a while now there will probably be Book Thoughts posts once or twice a day. They will be mixed in with my current reading book-thoughts and I will archive them just like anything else. Once I get those imported, though, Book Thoughts posts will all be new and I will probably make a post to announce that when I reach that point.

Also, just so I can say I wrote them down, my goals over the next couple of weeks are to:

• import reviews (obviously),
• get a good layout established, and
• design and upload a header.

Bibliophile out.

~Becky

Welcome!

Hi, I'm Becky, college student, cat lover, and incurable bibliophile.

On this blog, I shall talk about -- what else? Books. I figure it's good to start with goals, so my goals for this blog are to:

• keep track of the books I read and what I think about them,
• share my thoughts on all things bookish and talk about them with other readers (including trends, themes, movie adaptations, basically whatever I feel like), and
• offer book-related news, websites, etc. to my fellow bibliophiles.

Most of what I post is probably going to be YA just because that's most of what I read, but I will hardly limit myself to that. If it's to do with books, it's fair game for this blog. I'll probably start with a mix of new stuff and importing old reviews I've written for the sake of storage. Formatting, posting schedules, all of that I'll figure out as I go. Until then, happy reading!